Chip Barnes Email & Phone Number

Pawleys Island, Sc; Chapel Hill And Raleigh, Nc; New York City And Rye, Ny

Merchant and investment banking in the fields of media, entertainment, communications, renewable wind energy, maritime shipping and real estate. Activities include making principal investments in and serving as financial and strategic senior advisor to numerous growth companies with responsibilities for recapitalizations, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, and going public transactions. Also served during this 30 year period on the boards of approximately one dozen companies.

New York, New York

Elected by the Board in July 2018 to replace the majority shareholder and CEO, Robert FX Sillerman, as the interim Chief Executive Officer to hire and manage external accounting and legal experts to deal with certain SEC questions, shareholder complaints, and an investigation of the company by the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York. Such questions/problems were all successfully resolved prior to the Barnes resignation in May 2019. Originally joined company as an independent member on the Board of Directors for this publicly-traded Delaware Corporation to serve on Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Function(x), as a digital content provider to the Internet, operated Wetpaint. com and Rant.com and is also a majority shareholder of DraftDay Gaming Group and Choose Digital.

New York, New York

Recruited by the Board of Directors of SFX Entertainment Inc., a publicly-traded Delaware Corporation operating as the world's largest provider electronic music festivals, to serve as an independent director. The role immediately evolved into a position as a member on the Special Committee of the Board to oversee the company's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing and its eventual successful emergence from bankruptcy as a restructured global operating company.

Jersey City, Nj

Company was formed through the spin-off of self-storage warehouse properties from a large regional company operating around the greater NYC area. Personal responsibilities included the establishment for this newly-formed company of every operational, legal, financial, insurance, zoning, environmental and accounting function necessary to obtain and negotiate new banking facilities for the refinancing of expensive inherited mortgages and for working capital purposes.

West Warwick, Ri

Manufacturer of modular wind turbine generators, having an energy outpurt ranging from 100 kWh to over one megawatt, that can be installed at the site of the commercial end-user. Major operating partners included Bosch and other well-known wind industry players.

Charleston, Sc

Co-founded company with e-marketing group and large political party to provide affinity insurance services to huge network of potential customers. Established co-partner relationship with this country's largest insurance brokerage firm, coordinated initial marketing campaign, created in-house financial and accounting systems, and headed the successful rollout of our services offerings.

Beverly Hills, Ca

Headed initial equity investment, brought in co-partner, served on board during company creation and growth stages, and identified and negotiated with ultimate cable TV industry purchasers.

New York, Ny

This group handled private and public company investments, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, and publicly underwritten offerings. Mabon Nugent was a 95-year-old private Wall Street firm which transacted business with all major firms as a broker's broker, but with little investment and merchant banking presence prior to 1987.

Glendale, Ca

Working with senior operations management to determine capital needs, helped to create initial in-house institutional investment equity fund, successfully coordinated the private placement of securities, and closed on several large funds which eventually aggregated $300 million.

New York, Ny

Positions as (a) senior investment banker for large base of media, entertainment and telecom clients and (b) president of Prudential-Bache Broadcasting Inc., owned by Prudential Insurance, to co-invest with well-known television and radio broadcasting owners and operators.

New York, Ny

Both investment banker for and principal equity and debt investor in cable television, media and entertainment companies.

Los Angeles, Ca

Served as head of corporate banking relationships for companies throughout southern California and the Southwestern US. Also was responsible for correspondent banks throughout the state of California. Prior to serving in the Los Angeles office, acted as training director for commercial banking trainees, and earlier, as a regional head for corporate and correspondent banking clients throughout five Southern US states.

Ba And Mba Program, Psychology And Business Admin

Activities and Societies: Captain of rugby team, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, Men's Honor Court, Mystic Royal Order of the Arborholics.

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